#29 - Rumbustious
rumbustious /rŭm-bŭs′chəs/, adjective (comparative more rumbustious, superlative most rumbustious). (chiefly British, informal) Boisterous and unruly.
Synonym: (chiefly US) rambunctious.
Etymology: From rum- (“strong, very”) + bust + -ious. Alternatively, possibly from an alteration of robustious.
1912, Blanche Edith Baughan, “Red and Yellow and Ripe”, in Brown Bread from a Colonial Oven: “Childer! Borne ’em I ’ave, an’ buried ’em I ’ave, but now I can’t seem to do wi’ their clatter no more—young things is that restless an’ rumbustious.”
Today’s definition is adapted from Wiktionary, the free collaborative dictionary (based on Webster 1913).